Pulmonary Edema
73 Pulmonary Edema Zvi Vered, Saar Minha, Edo Kaluski, Nir Uriel Definition Pulmonary edema is a potentially life-threatening syndrome caused by excess fluid transition into the alveoli due to alternations…
CRITICAL CARE
Clinical Assessment of Renal Function
108 Clinical Assessment of Renal Function Todd W.B. Gehr, Anton C. Schoolwerth Five to 15 percent of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) experience acute deterioration in renal function.1,2 Conversely,…
Postpartum Hemorrhage
161 Postpartum Hemorrhage Marie R. Baldisseri Definition The commonly accepted definition of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is excessive and life-threatening bleeding after 20 weeks of gestation, which occurs at the time…
Thrombolytics
202 Thrombolytics Ryan M. McEnaney, Edith Tzeng Thrombolytic agents comprise a diverse group of compounds that indirectly initiate lysis of thrombi. In the formation of a thrombus, fibrin forms the…
Jugular Venous and Brain Tissue Oxygen Tension Monitoring
W19 Jugular Venous and Brain Tissue Oxygen Tension Monitoring Lucido Ponce, Jovany Cruz, Santhosh Sadasivan, Shankar Gopinath, Bartley Mitchell, Claudia Robertson Ultrasound-Guided Internal Jugular Vein Oxygen Saturation (Sjvo2) Catheter Placement:…
Organ Toxicity of Cancer Chemotherapy
156 Organ Toxicity of Cancer Chemotherapy Amélie Seguin, Virginie Lemiale, Anne-Sophie Moreau, Michaël Darmon, Adeline Max, Lionel Karlin, Élie Azoulay Substantial improvements in survival rates among cancer patients admitted to…
Acute Kidney Injury
114 Acute Kidney Injury Elwaleed A. Elhassan, Robert W. Schrier Acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by an abrupt decrease in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that results in accumulation…
Fulminant Hepatic Failure
102 Fulminant Hepatic Failure Su Min Cho, Raghavan Murugan, Ali Al-Khafaji Acute liver failure (ALF), also known as fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), embraces a spectrum of clinical entities characterized by…
Management of Patients after Kidney, Kidney-Pancreas, or Pancreas Transplantation
196 Management of Patients after Kidney, Kidney-Pancreas, or Pancreas Transplantation Greg J. Beilman The first successful long-term functioning kidney transplant was performed by Joseph Murray in 1954 between two monozygotic…
Ventricular Arrhythmias
79 Ventricular Arrhythmias Raúl J. Gazmuri, Cristina Santonocito Abnormalities in impulse generation and conduction may lead to arrhythmic events in critically ill patients, some of which could be life threatening….
